Gym Rat My Gymnastic Bodies Review Previously I talked about getting back on the exercise horse [http://harveynick.com/2017/02/25/getting-back-on-the-exercise-horse/], and how this lead my to following Gymnastic Bodies [https://www.gymnasticbodies.com] as my program. At the end of that post I promised a review of it, and so here it is.
Gym Rat Getting Back on the Exercise Horse When I resolved to start training again, I had a problem: what sort of program should I follow? After a good eight or nine months of not going to the gym I was pretty damn out of shape. When I wrote my previous [http://harveynick.com/2013/05/10/a-very-rough-guide-to-beginners-barbell-training-programs/
Blogger Goals for 2017 I don’t really do new years resolutions. They just don’t seem to work for me. I don’t see that there’s anything that special about January 1st. It isn’t even the first day of the year for a reasonable portion of the planet. Expecting to make
Blogger Getting Back on the Horse(s) Last year, around August, I fell off two horses, more or less simultaneously. Metaphorical horses, much as I would love to say that failing to straddle two galloping steeds is the reason that I ended up skipping the gym for six months. One of those horses was training, the other
Blogger Some Thoughts on Gamification If you're playing any sort of a game, the question "Am I winning?" is usually quite easy to answer. "Is my score higher than the other guy?" usually covers it (though if you're playing something like chess it might be a little
Gym Rat Further Watching and Reading This was supposed to go at the end of my last post, but it was running a little long. Basically, here is collection of writings about fitness from around the internet which I've found either useful, thought provoking, or fun. Warning: the blog post features two pictures of
Gym Rat Barbell Training Follow Up So: after writing that giant post about the three main beginners programs I read up on while trying to figure out the best way to get myself into some sort of (non round) shape, I thought I'd switch to a topic on which I can confidently talk with
Geek A (Very) Rough Guide to Beginners' Barbell Training Programs As I promised in my last post [/2013/05/06/do-you-even-lift], I'd now like to talk a bit about the different weight lifting programs I ended up researching. I spent a fairly silly amount of time here, so I'm hoping that you find it useful. I&
Geek Do You Even Lift, Bro? After I arrived in London I decided to take a second stab at Couch to 5k, having abandoned it the first time around [/2013/04/07/running-the-first-time]. The problem now was finding a time and place. At first I tried running in the evenings around Wandsworth Common, conveniently close to
Geek Running, The First Time When I decided to drag myself back on to the fitness wagon, it seemed to me that running was the answer. Getting myself to an actual gym clearly wasn't working, but I lived a short walk from a large and beautiful park (oh The Meadows, how I miss
Geek A Fitness Story During most of university I was in pretty crap shape, but in the second year of my PhD my physical condition got particularly lousy. I caught a bus every morning which left from directly outside my flat and took me directly to the university. I did pretty much no exercise
Blogger Categories and Goals It's good to have goals. Even if you fail to meet them. Sometimes especially when you fail to meet them. It's quite widely publicised that at Google we're expected to score 0.7 (on a scale where 0 is a complete failure and 1
